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Rick, Comments inline ... John

At 09:39 AM 4/28/2004, you wrote:

Top (i)5 reasons I think the name change is good - (5 through 2 are really
the same reason)

   5.  IBM already screwed up the marketing opportunity it had with iSeries
   by not marketing the name at all.
4.  i5 is new, flashy and easy to remember.
3.  i5 ties nicely to bleeding edge power 5 technology.
2.  it gives IBM one more chance to market to the guys with the big desks
who get their IT expertise from financial magazines.

With luck, they will FINALLY decouple the naming of the operating system from the hardware that runs it!!! That is the greatest CURSE of we carry in terms of "proprietary" positioning!!!!

As long as the OS NAME is associated with the hardware, we will not be perceived to be "open" by the computing profession!!!

and the number one reason I think changing iseries to i5 is a good thing
1.  updating my resume with experience on another platform should be worth
at least another 5K-10K a year!

... and you dare complain about outsourcing ... that's the kind of attitude that drives corporate management toward finding lower cost alternatives!!!!!

Rick

John

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